11/15/10 11/15/10

Where Are Your Feet?

Don't overthink the lift, or your life. You can handle both. You're a CrossFitter.

11/15/10 11/15/10

What If the Whiteboard Was Blank?

If no one writes on the whiteboard, can it still be CrossFit?

11/12/10 11/12/10

The CrossFit Treehouse

The old tree house looks a little different but it's still a place where you're safe to dream and folks will give you a hand up if you need one.

11/11/10 11/11/10

Getting Better?

Every choice you make either propels you along the road towards your dreams . . . or it takes you farther away.

11/10/10 11/10/10

Sacrifice

But the term "sacrifice" actually means "the surrender of something for the sake of something else." It's not deprivation for deprivation's sake. Sacrifice means giving up this in order to get that.

11/9/10 11/9/10

The Rules of One

There is only one rep. The one you're doing right now.

11/8/10 11/8/10

Losing Your Fran Virginity

Bumpers and a barbell: $300. Pull-up bar: $100. Watching a newbie roll around on the floor after their first Fran, trying not to puke: Priceless.

11/7/10 11/7/10

What You Make Of It

This world is exactly what you make it -- no better or worse than your own attitude every single day. And if you can improve yourself, well, you can improve the world too.

11/4/10 11/4/10

Choosing Your Happy Hour

Whatever you're doing is cool by me. Is it cool by you? And are you where you want to be?

11/3/10 11/3/10

H is for Homework . . . or Hotness?

11/2/10 11/2/10

The "S" Word

Don't ever apologize for having standards.

11/2/10 11/2/10

Barbell Voodoo

What's your barbell voodoo?

11/1/10 11/1/10

Tell Your Fear to Stuff It

So many people, in so many ways in life, are scared to do what they want to do. Don't be one of them. Step up.

10/31/10 10/31/10

The CrossFit Conscience

Somewhere in the back of your mind, wondering what would have happened -- how you would feel -- if you had gone a little bit harder, been a little bit stronger, got an extra round, did the right thing . . .

10/30/10 10/30/10

Rekindling the Metcon Fire

I am not exaggerating when I say that you found salvation in metcon. It was your first introduction to CrossFit and it saved you from who you were before. It saved all of us.